On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 03:13, Trevor Hills wrote: > users crontab using 'crontab -e'. We thought we could remove this > manual step in the installation of our applications by instead > creating a file which contained all the cron entries and having the > install process copy the file into the /etc/cron.d/ directory. Now, we I do the same thing, and haven't noticed problems with cron not updating, on RHEL 3.x and older RH versions. Perhaps you have a problem with your actual cron job file. Take RPM out of the equation: copy a file to /etc/cron.d and see if it executes. Bye Paolo _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list